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Chinese named entity recognition with a sequence labeling approach: Based on characters, or based on words?

  • Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

Named Entity Recognition (NER), an important problem of Natural Language Processing, is the basis for other applications, such as Data Mining and Relation Extraction. With a sequence labeling approach, this paper wants to answer which kind of tokens that should be taken as the graininess in NER task, characters or words. Meanwhile, we use not only local context features within a sentence, but also global knowledge features extracting from other occurrences of each word in the whole corpus. The results show that without the global features the person names and the location names have good result based on characters, but the organization names are more suitable based on words. When global features are added, the performance of based on words improved significantly.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvanced Intelligent Computing Theories and Applications
Subtitle of host publicationWith Aspects of Artificial Intelligence - 6th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2010, Proceedings
EditorsDe-Shuang Huang, Xiang Zhang
Pages634-640
Number of pages7
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event6th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2010 - Changsha, China
Duration: 18 Aug 201021 Aug 2010

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume6216 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference6th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2010
Country/TerritoryChina
CityChangsha
Period18/08/1021/08/10

Keywords

  • CRF
  • Chinese
  • Named Entity Recognition
  • graininess

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